9/26/2006

Here’s a short Japanese TV segment called “The Patrolman’s Love Call” — a children’s safety song for teaching kids how to call the police and also about the prevention of prank calls. My buddy, tokyoguyjean, has subtitled in English and edited down just for your pleasure.

Although tokyoguyjean calls this is “very artistic and poignant,” it’s actually just a satirical Japanese TV segment from the “The Black Wide Show.” However, in the video, the Japanese announcer explains that this safety song went to No. 4 on the charts in 2001.

Alternatively, you can listen to just the audio of the song in my podcast for today (54 sec, streaming or MP3 download 770KB).